Anybody else sick and tired of hearing about these goddamned WMDs? First of all, I hate the wording “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” How frigging stupid is that? An atom bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, anthrax – quite obviously – is not. If you have to use some sort of catchy sobriquet I think the British “Weapons of Mass Effect” is far more accurate. So much for spin.
But seriously folks, did our government lie to us? Why did we go to war with Iraq? Was it, as the press would like you to think, solely because the intelligence community offered evidence presented by those in power indicating Iraq had quantities of easily accessed WMEs?
No, goddamnit. That was not the bloody reason at all.
Funny isn’t it? After September 11 all the papers were full of vitriolic spew accusing the intelligence community of letting us down, of not cluing in the people in charge and of not doing everything they could to avert this horrible tragedy. Now, post-Iraq, the papers are full of vitriolic spew accusing the people in charge of browbeating the intelligence community into doing everything they could to cause this horrible tragedy. Bugger off you bastards.
We went to war with Iraq because, as I read yesterday, Saddam had a contract with the United States. He’d give up his WMEs, prove he did so and we’d let him live. He violated that contract innumerable times over the past 12 years and we finally got a chief executive who has the brass cajones to call Mr. Moustache on his repeated abuses.
When you make a deal with US, you live up to it or we kill you. We have the power. It’s just that simple.
So, when do you think the press will find something else to complain about? Iraq may be a mess but it’s getting better. The economy may be a mess but it’s getting better. Looks like 2004 is shaping up nicely, too bad there’s not much out there to frighten the American people with, I suppose the purveyors of FUD are pretty much screwed.
Serves ’em right.